The Godfather of AI wants an FDA-style approval system for the technology
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Geoffrey Hinton pushing for FDA-style pre-approval moves the Overton window toward ex-ante model regulation rather than post-hoc audits. If you’re training or deploying powerful models, start documenting safety cases and evals as if a regulator will eventually require them — retrofitting this later will be painful.
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